The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 2
The Bat begged for his life, but the Weasel would not listen.
Who acts: Bat, Weasel · What happens: beg, not listen
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bat, Weasel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bat | det |
| 2 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listen | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 listen | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Weasel | det |
| 10 | Weasel | Weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 listen | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 listen | advmod |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Bat | for Bat's life | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for life=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not listen | would | the Weasel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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